The Ministry of Health provisionally informed about 175 new cases of coronavirus in the Canary Islands for yesterday, as again there is no full data on national holidays and at weekends. This takes the total number of accumulated cases in the Canary Islands to 28,279 since the pandemic started.
They also reported of one Covid related death of a man in El Hierro, associated with the outbreak in the Echedo nursing home but who was hospitalised, only the second person to lose his life from the virus in this island.
For the second time this week, Gran Canaria had the most new cases and surpassed Tenerife, with Fuerteventura also seeing a rebound. By islands, the figures for yesterday were:
- Gran Canaria registered 75 new cases and passed a new landmark with 11,021 accumulated cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
- Tenerife added 61 new cases, and now has an accumulated total of 13,898 people who have tested positive for the virus.
- Fuerteventura, with 21 new cases yesterday, now has 1,051 accumulated.
- Lanzarote added 12 new cases with a total of 1,698.
- La Palma had five new cases, placing the accumulated at 312.
- El Hierro, added one new case and its accumulated are 98.
- La Gomera was the only island that had no new cases detected in the last 24 hours.
The distortion caused by the holidays makes it difficult to clearly appreciate the evolution of the epidemic in the islands, for example, between December 31st and January 3rd, a daily average of only 2,200 PCR diagnostic tests was carried out in the Canary Islands, almost half of the 4,000 that had been carried out daily before Christmas.
All figures will be updated later today when the information is released by the Canaries Emergency and Alerts Control Centre, and this data will be used at the monographic meeting between the Government and the Ministry of Health, to determine the new restrictions that will be applied from Sunday.
